Coupling for candlesticks, &amp;c.



Patented Apr. 29, |902.

No. 698,83l.

c. n. GABRIEL. CDUPLING FR 'CANDLESTICKS, 81.0.

(Appligaiion tiled Jan. 2, 1902.)

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i UNITED STATES l PATENT EEICE.

CHARLES R. GABRIEL, OE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GORI-IAM yMANUFACTURINGr COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

COUPLING FOR CNDLESTICKS, 860.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,831, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed January 2, 1902. Serial No.'87,98'7. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs R. GABRIEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Couplings for Candle# sticks or other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

In the arts many articles require to be inserted into sockets and supported in the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a coupling which will automatically adjust itself to variations in the diameter of the sockets, so that the articles provided with the improved couplingmay be readily secured in sockets of varying diameter.

The invention consists in the peculiar and In the drawings, ct indicates a socket, andv b an article to be secured in and supportedl In the drawings the article To the by the socket. b is represented as a candle-support. end of the article the dowel c is secured. The diameter of the dowel is less than the diameter of any one of the sockets in which the article is to be secured. The dowel has the disk c at one end and the disk c2 in the other end. The cylindrical'wall of the dowel is slotted longitudinallyA from a point near the disk c2 to a point near the diskc'. Inthese slots the clamps cl, having their ends curved obliquely inward, are inserted. The post d is secured at the opposite ends in the disks c and ci. On the post the cam-rings d2 d2,

fitting the post with a sliding nt, are heid vapart by the coiled springdS, inclosing the post. 'Ihe cam-rings are forced by the coiled spring against the obliquely-curved ends of the clamps d, forcing the clamps outward until theends of the clamps bear against the portions of the cylindrical Wall of the dowel, as is shown in Fig. I. When the article provided With my coupling is pushed into the socket, the obliquely-curved ends of the clamps d facilitate the entrance of the coupling, and the force of the coiled spring d3 acting on the cam-rings forcesthe clamps outward against the wall of the socket.

In applying my improved coupling to the tubular holder for candles, as shown in Fig. I, I extend the dowel into the tube of the holder and secure it to the same.

Having Vthus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 2.1 In'a coupling, the combination with a 'socket and the article to be secured in the socket, ,of a tubular dowel, longitudinal slots i'njthe'cylindrical Wall of the dowel, disks in Vthe op posits ends of the dowel, a central post, cam-pringson the post, a coiled spring bearingon the cam-disks, and radially-moving clamps operated by the spring-pressed camrings to bear on the Wall of the socket, as described.

In testimony Whereofl havesigned my name to this speciiication inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHAS. GABRIEL.

Witnesses: v

J. A. MILLER, Jr., ADA E. IIAGERTY. 

